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Bill Cosby seeking criminal defence lawyer as 2005 charges resurface

US comedian Bill Cosby is seeking to hire a criminal defence lawyer as prosecutors revisit a 2005 sexual assault complaint against him.

Lawyer Edwin Jacobs said yesterday (September 22) that Cosby's agents had contacted  him about a pending investigation in Montgomery County.

Jacobs, who represented Cosby in a review of another accuser's complaint in New Jersey, said he referred Cosby's agents to another high-profile Philadelphia-area lawyer.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman would not confirm her office is reinvestigating the complaint by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand.

However, she said in a recent statement:

"Prosecutors have a responsibility to review past conclusions ... when current information might lead to a different decision."

Ferman's predecessor, Bruce Castor, did not think the evidence was sufficient to charge Cosby with a crime in 2005.

Since then, dozens of women have accused the 'I Spy' actor of drugging and assaulting them.

In the civil suit, Constand said she met Cosby through her job with the women's basketball program at Temple, where Cosby served on the board of trustees.

She said he befriended and mentored her, but in a January 2004 visit to his Cheltenham home, she said, he gave her three pills for stress and she later woke up with her clothes tampered with.

Cosby, in a sworn deposition released this year, acknowledged he had sexual contact with Constand in 2004 but said it was consensual.

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